UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Six engineering students and two faculty members at Penn State were honored this spring with awards from the Graduate School.
Yuchao Chen, engineering science and mechanics, and Ran Yi, mechanical engineering, received the Alumni Association Dissertation Award. It provides funding and recognition to outstanding full-time doctoral students who have passed their comprehensive exams and have received approval of the dissertation topic. Each student received $5,000.
An AT&T Graduate Fellowship was awarded to Wenjie Hu, computer science and engineering. The fellowship recognizes outstanding graduate students who are conducting research in wireless data applications. Hu will receive a $5,000 scholarship for the fall 2015 semester.
Devin Pohly, computer science and engineering, is the recipient of the Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award. He received $500 for his outstanding teaching performance.
The Thomas and June Beaver Fund Award recipients are Yuchao Chen, engineering science and mechanics, and Tingwei Ren, chemical engineering. The award provides a minimum of $2,000 in financial assistance to outstanding graduate students who are performing industrially sponsored research in connection with the Ben Franklin Partnership Fund Program.
Karen Thole, professor and head of the mechanical and nuclear engineering department, is the recipient of the Howard B. Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award. The award recognizes outstanding achievement by a faculty member with at least five years of service who effectively guides junior faculty.
Enrique Gomez, assistant professor of chemical engineering, received the Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award. It honors interdisciplinary materials research at Penn State which yields valuable, unexpected results and recognizes genuine innovation not previously achieved.